During 2005-06, the company's revenue was Rs 26.88 crore,
up from Rs 19.38 crore in the previous year, registering a healthy 38.7 percent
growth.

Earlier operating from Chandigarh, Imperial Life-Sciences
shifted base to its new 15,000 sft facility in Gurgaon in December last. Its new
set-up is equipped with latest communication equipment and storage facilities.
The company has also set up a well-equipped and full-fledged "Application
Support Laboratory" at this facility. The lab has latest technologies such
as Fast PCR, Real Time QPCR, Automated DNA Sequencer and other laboratory
equipment and plans to add micro array scanner and spotter to this facility
soon.

Imperial has been doing good business. The company received
the "Best Distributor of the Year" award consecutively in 2004 and
2005 from Stratagene Inc., one of its key principals. Presently, it has a
marketing alliance with about 45 international companies including Stratagene,
Matrix, Analytic Jena, Fisher Scientific, Ameresco among many others. To
streamline and efficiently reach its customers, the company has established two
separate divisions- Instrumentation and Bioinformatics; Specialty Reagents and
Consumables. Supply of bioinformatics software and tools is a new segment which
it has added to its portfolio. Currently it represents Iobion Labs, a division
of Stratagene and Premier Biosoft, Inc, USA. During the FY 2006, the company did
business worth Rs 1.45 crore in this segment.

At its recently set up application support laboratory in
Gurgaon, Imperial provides complete technical training and application support
to its customers in designing and optimization of various QPCR assays, product
validations and trouble shooting for researchers working on QPCR, microarray and
other techniques.

In order to provide the best possible products and services
to its customers in India, Imperial Life Sciences has built a complete
distribution network from the ground up, with subdivisions, branch offices, and
sales executives in all major cities and regions. It covers the entire market of
India through an established network of its own stock, sales and service centers
in cities of India such as Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Lucknow and
Kolkata. The company has over 10,000 satisfied customers in research institutes,
biotech, biopharma companies, universities, hospitals and diagnostic centers.

Its key customers include companies in the biopharma,
biotech, agriculture, veterinary sciences segment along with universities,
medical colleges, drug discovery labs, clinical trial and contract research
facilities and research institutes.